Chelonibia testudinaria

Chelonibia testudinaria on Caretta caretta, Mediterranean Sea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coronuloidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Hexanauplia Subclassis: Thecostraca Infraclassis: Cirripedia Superordo: Thoracica Ordo: Sessilia Subordo: Balanomorpha Infraordo: Neobalanoformes Superfamilia: Coronuloidea

Chelonibia testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758: 668)

Geological age: Pliocene to Recent
Original genus: Lepas
Symbiont: Epibiont commensal on carapace of marine turtles
Type locality:
Types:
Distribution: Cosmopolitan on marine turtles; Pliocene of Italy, associated with whales
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Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. [See p. 668, as Lepas testudinaria]

Collareta, A., Bosselaers, M. & Bianucci, G. 2016. Jumping from turtles to whales: a Pliocene fossil record depicts an ancient dispersal of Chelonibia on mysticetes. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 122(2): 35–44. Full article (PDF) DOI: 10.13130/2039-4942/7229 Reference page.

Darwin, C. 1854. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 2: The Balanidae, The Verrucidae. BHL London: Ray Society. Reference page. [See p. 392] (as Chelonobia testudinaria) (see for junior synonyms)

Newman, W.A.; Ross, A. 1976: Revision of the balanomorph barnacles; including a catalog of the species. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History, (9) BHL Reference page. [See p. 44]

Zardus, J.D., Lake, D.T., Frick, M.G. & Rawson, P.D. 2014. Deconstructing an assemblage of “turtle” barnacles: species assignments and fickle fidelity in Chelonibia. Marine Biology 161(1): 45–59. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-013-2312-7 Springer. Reference page. [Genetic data of Chelonibia morphspecies]

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